In a candid and honest response to a question at a town hall on February 2nd, 2013, Representative Hunter says that because the Black community has more crime than White communities, they have been historically kept from having guns. Representative Hunter must be given credit for not being sure that the approach has worked. Here is a transcript of that portion of the video.

Chicago Town Hall, 3rd Legislative District:

At 1:38:35 to 1:39:40, State Representative Ken Duncan, when asked why do 49 states have concealed carry legislation and we don't, says:

" The City of Chicago, Historically their opposition toward concealed and carry has been significant, keep in mind the lion's share of the bulk of us represent this metropolitan area, and keep in mind the lion's share of the abject poverty and crime, even though in every state in the Union, there are more poor whites on public welfare, in every state, the crime, the concentration of crime, and again, the abject poverty exists, exists exclusively and criminally in our community.

And so this city has sought to kind a play a regulatory role for reducing the activity of guns trafficking in the city. Has it worked? But that, to answer your question, and the Speaker of our house as you know, like most of us know, that if it hit the house floor, it would pass."

Video of town hall link

Clearly, the old approach of keeping poor black folks from having legal guns has failed. Perhaps it is time to try a new approach, of allowing responsible, honest black people to have guns to defend themselves from the predators in their community. It has worked where it has been tried.

Law abiding blacks live in the rough neighborhoods, will know who is the good guys and who are the bad guys. The black criminal commits 90 percent of the crime against blacks. Arming law abiding blacks will be a kill zone for black criminals who are not used to having their victims armed.

Judging strictly by crimes committed using firearms, it would seem like blacks have plenty of guns. Is there any instance of a black person being refused the sale of a firearm when they are legally allowed to own one? Go forth, and buy guns.

The only way to have civility is to increase the risk of incivility. Give the law-abiding citizens in these black communities more guns. That increases the risk for those criminal gutter snipes to engage in uncivil behavior like taking shots at innocent bank tellers or innocent people on the sidewalk. Why engage in risky behavior that elicits a reaction causing hot lead to enter your heart? Fear of the hot lead makes gutter snipes into choir boys.

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posted on 02/02/2013 9:43:07 PM PST
by jonrick46
(The opium of Communists: other people's money.)

amen to that. but i’d say it’s a fair bet that there’s more blacks in chicago with guns than anyone else. the dude’s argument falls apart.

it ain’t a race thing. it’s a class/elitist thing. it’s the elite vs all the rest of the peons. the elite have armed security and get exemptions to carry, but they don’t want any of the rest of the lower citizenry to be able to defend themselves.

I've since stumbled across that same image that's a tad bit sharper. This ought to be publicized far and wide. If the lamestream media had any sense at all, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in America:

If the lamestream media had any sense at all, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in America:

I think you mean, "If the lamestream media had any integrity". It does not. The entirety of their purpose is to help their Democrat party send America down the toilet. It is what they are.

The Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms got the way they are for a reason - - people who are bitter malcontents by nature gravitate toward socialism and its primary tool, "the news". This is why the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms are populated by liberals. The old saying, "Misery loves company," is at play here. The fact is, liberals by nature are incapable of true happiness and selfishly want everybody to be as humorless and miserable as they are. Equally so.

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